Senior Intimacy Issues: When Your Mate Hasn’t Hit Menopause

As a baby boomer couple, you might have read magazine and newspaper articles depicting the majority of women over the age of 50 have started menopause.

But what if your senior mate is over 50 and still hasn’t reached menopause?

It’s nothing to fret about, but her being premenopausal does have an impact on your relationship, especially in the bedroom. If you’re a boomer guy, you may even have avoided reading any of the health articles touching on menopause because it didn’t directly pertain to you.

Well, now it does.

You were probably expecting the two of you wouldn’t have to discuss birth control. You just figured avoiding pregnancy as a romantic couple in your 50s would be a moot point.

It’s perfectly normal to anticipate the freedom from concern for unplanned pregnancy, but not every woman stops menstruating at age 50.

She’s likely perimenopausal and is watching her cycle like a Peregrine falcon ready to swoop in on any slight variation in her cycle as a sign “the change” has started.

The average age for true menopause for women in the U.S. is 51 (according to National Institute on Aging). Quite a number of women haven’t reached full menopause even by the time they are 53, 54 or 55 years old.

Even though she hasn’t hit menopause, your lady is still fertile. However, she is fairly unlikely to conceive. She might be menstruating, but her egg production diminishes over the course of a lifetime of fertility.

What’s worse is if she conceives after 50, her pregnancy brings significant health complications for her, which the two of you will then need to contend with.

“Make your getting intimate conversations

practical and a little bit naughty!”

What to discuss:

You want to avoid any such complexities in your mature relationship, which means as part of your pre-consummation conversations, you two need to discuss birth control.

Discuss This!

April Braswell

April Braswell is a senior dating expert, dating coach and professional dating profile writer. She leads dating, relationship and communication skills workshops throughout California. You can sign up for her ezine at www.AprilBraswell.com and get a free gift ecourse when you do. Connect with April on Google+.

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